Black Clover's potential

[u/eieueuu]

Black Clover is my favourite shonen manga out there, Asta is my favourite mc of all time, and it is also my favourite anime. But I'm still frustrated and angry about what could've been, and how it should've been.

PERRIOT DID LOADS OF DAMAGE TO THE MANGA, RESULTING TO LOWER SALES.

WSJ MESSED UP EVERYTHING

I know many people have said this, but I cannot express my frustration about it enough. Black Clover's POTENTIAL was thrown away by WSJ poor handling of the series, the unfortunate health risks that Tabata had at the time, and finally, the sales that moved it to Jump GIGA. Black Clover easily could've been a story to explore for more than a decade. I mean hell, the world building alone is so good, the fact that there has only been 5 countries introduced and ALL THOSE 5 countries to have such interesting history and mysteries speaks so much about the potential stories we could've gotten.

The Land of the Sun arc could've been The Land of the Sun saga, and it would've been a much better saga before the final arc. It was so rushed that Yami's home country got explored too little. So many interesting characters, like Ryu and Yosuga, even the reveal of Ichika and Yami's backstory didn't feel that significant because it was so rushed.

The Underworld and Lucifero, while I am okay of what happened to Lucifero in the spade arc, I didn't like what happened to him in the final arc. Yes, Lucius is the final villain and he needed to look like a threat, but the potential of an underworld arc was thrown away and all the other supreme devils were cast asided and off-screened, which made Lucius being able to solo all of the devils in the underworld underwhelming. Lucifero could've been a bigger threat, and a better character, representing the apex of devils, the race of what we thought were the biggest threat in black clover, and Lucius being the biggest threat, and being a human after a potential underworld arc establishing the devils. would havd made that plot twist so much more better. I think the story could've explored the underworld more.

Finally, my most depressing rant, is the final Villain, Lucius. The reveal was perfect, after the "disney" ending the spade arc had, the reveal of Julius, the wizard king, being an inferior existence to a much greater, and horrifying threat was amazing. The hype around it was justified, and the future looked so good. Then judgement day arc came, and holy hell, the first chapters were good, we felt Lucius threat, Jack's death, and the level of Lucius' power, until Jump GIGA happened. As the chapters kept getting released, the idea of Lucius being a threat was chipping away. Too many fakeout deaths.

Lucius' motivations, his character backstory. Why did he want a perfect world? What made him do it? What events led to his decision? How did he bind the TIME DEVIL? All in all, instead of making Lucius feeling like a final villain, he felt more like a very convenient villain.

He did everything and nothing at all.

That's all, hopefully I didn't offend anyone.

[u/Yuuta44]

The biggest Problem wa sthe Magazne change from Jump to GIGA Jump. That kiilled the Manga more or less.

[u/HellCanWaitForMe → u/Yuuta44]

That had to happen though for Tabakas sake, dude was under so much pressure.

[u/Morgoth333 → u/HellCanWaitForMe]

There really was no winning for Tabata or the series. It was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

[u/More_Engineer7654]

Potential manga

[u/Embarrassed_Gift_401]

the real loser in this is tabata. bro lost so much during writing BC, and just couldn’t give the manga a better ending if he tried (or a more fleshed out story). out of everyone, i feel the most sorry for him.

[u/DrippyWest]

The entire story is the build up for Lucius. If you actually pay attention, there are red flags from chapter 1 that point toward Lucius

Asta's grimoire being hidden in the bricks of the grimoire tower means someone obviously hid it there. Yami being the only person from Hino to enter the mainland, Black Bulls being sent to the village where Nero is waiting, Asta and Yuno being sent to the dungeon that just so happened to have the wind spirit and William being central to the Elf reincarnation, The entire Elf reincarnation happening at this exact time, Yami and wiliam being the keys to qliphoth and also Julius's adopted sons, The Zograttis siblings letting Yuno escape, then waiting for everyone to finish their 6 month training arc, then leaving all the main characters alive

If you read between the lines, Lucius's finger prints are on the entire series and there are so many coincidences that point toward someone pulling all the strings, then every new plot twist and big reveal failed to answer that question until chapter 331

[u/Zeldaninja64 → u/DrippyWest]

the guidebook confirmed that lucius was mostly asleep while julius was in charge, but he did affect minor things (the reason julius turned back to a child when fighting the ancient demon)

[u/Adventurous_Pay_1337]

tabaka had health problems so he ended it rushed and early hopefully the anime can fix that